Charles Arthur: For developers and device manufacturers, life's like living in a desert at night: you need to find a campfire where you'll get some sustenance. Will they find them in the promised offerings from Microsoft and Google?

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: When the developer of the Mono open source project left his job at Novell, it seemed like his project to develop for Android and iOS would die. But instead he has revived it. Will it survive?